Football giving the impression of strenuousness far out of proportion to -the occasional cooling breeze which visited the Race Course was likewise in progress with its goodly showing of interested spectators.
Two games were played here, one] between the 2nd Bu. Suffolks and the Ist Bu. Border Regiment on the Polo Ground No. 1, and another Polo Ground No. 2 between "the!
Royal Corps of, Signals and the} Royal Air Force.
Hongkew Park and the Public School field in Hongkew were other focal points. during the afternoon for {football sind hockey. and the same sporting fixtures extended far jand wide through the Yangtszepoo area. A tennis match between sergeants was also played in the Yangtszepoo Camp.
Hockey at Marble Hall furnished example of the kindness. of various local. residents -who hud lent their grounds for the after noon's purposes. The game was later in starting than had been a nounced, but the waiting _hockey players Seemed to enjoy the interval by lounging on the shaded: slopes of the lawn. Preparations for tea on the terrace-verandah of Marble Hall were also in progress while the players waited.
The General Officer Commanding, Major-General John Duncan, visited the various districts during the afternoon, beginning at the Western and Central areas, with a look-in fat Glen Road on the way to the Race Course and ending up at ngtszepo0, a feat which involved 'a considerable covering of ground when the distances between points are recalled.
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